Just when I thought I was the only guy in the world who's still got a trading card featuring the First Lady of the Alliance, a quick Google search reveals I'm not alone. Not only are their others like me, but some have gone as far as going to Star Wars conventions and getting Caroline Blakiston - the actress who played Mothma - to autograph it Hey, she still looks great! Even though she sort of dresses like the Fabulous Moolah. Other highlights from this dude's webpage : A photo of the...

So here I am flipping through an old box of assorted cards from my youth that I've just salvaged from my Mom's basement. As usual I'm enjoying the memories of past players as I skim though them at a medium pace. There's Roy Lee Jackson, Al Toon, Jim Benning, a rather goofy looking Harold Snepts offering - and then BAM! A freaking Scud missile. In 1991 Topps released an 88-card set documenting the personalities, vehicles and weapons of Operation Desert Storm. And while I didn't...

This isn't necessarily an interesting card. Obviously I was just looking for yet another excuse to write that Charles Haley liked to butter his own parsnips, if you know what I mean. I promise this is the last time I'll mention it for you regular readers. I just need to be sure every possible person knows about just how messed up this dude was. If you haven't been following the jottings of us blogosphere hacks over the past couple of months, you may not have heard that Jeff Pearlman has...

Today's trading card is a 1982-83 O-Pee-Chee Dave Semenko. Semenko is eyeing someone out of frame here. Who? I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it's Doug Wilson. Maybe Bob Murray. It could - according to the timeline - even be The Score's own Steve Ludzik. Whomever he's staring down, the message is quite clear. You fuck with Gretzky, you fuck with me. But don't take it personally, guy on the Blackhawks who's about to endure some traumatic brain hemorrhaging. Dave Semenko is a...

Today's trading card doesn't have a player sporting a goofy moustache or ridiculously dated uniform. No sir. To truly understand why today's 1987 Topps Darren Daulton card is significant, I'm going to have to tell you a story. Or cut and paste one from Wikipedia at least. Here's the card: And now for the story. Before we get going here, I've embedded the opening theme to Coast to Coast AM to add to the mood of the post. Fans of the show will understand why when you read on...

Homoeroticism can't really be detected when you're eight years old. At least not when I was that age. Count me in as one of those youngsters who wanted to be like George Michael because "you could get any girl you wanted". Today's eight year old however, may be far more savvy in observing such things. Which leads me into today's trading card. This friendly two-shot of "The Killer Bees" is from a 1985 WWF (now WWE of course) collector's set. And while professional...